The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-30
PERSONAL,

BISHOP RYAN, of Buffalo, sails for Rome from
New York this week
Gov. AMEs, of Massachusetts, carries life nsur
ance to the amount Of $125,O 900.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES is fond of referring to
the trainers of the constitution as Our
Fathers"
CHARLES DICKENS, JR, is looking forward to
a dinner in Chicago on Christmas day with
Henry Irving
ROBERT MANCHESTER is perhaps the oldest
song and dance man on the American stage. He
worth more than $4,000
SENATOR SALISBURY, it is again reported, will
shortly be married to Southern girl. The SEN
ator has passed the three-score mark
The Duke of Marlborough, before sailing for
Europeon Saturday, purchased several dozen
views of various objects of interest in New York.
ACCORDING to the most reliable statistics, 1855
of 335 colleges pronounce by the Roman method,
IA by the English method and "a by the CONT
mental.
Liberal Arts represent almost every Stale in the
American union, besides a very liberal repre-
sentation from the dominion of Canada.
MISS ROSE CLEvEIANDs salary as teacher in
the high-casS school for young ladies in New
York is said TO be higher than that paid to any
American woman except the stars on the stage.
CHARLES DICKENS, the younger, was overcome
he gazed upon the cataract: "Why, this is
something awful My father, in his American
Notes" speaks of Niagara as place of peace
and rest. | don't see what he could have been
thinking about. Peace and rest! Why, TO me
it is one of abject terror"
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has purchased for
summer residence an abandoned little red house
on a decayed farm at Ashfield, Mass, where he
has a magnificent view of that mountainous
country. He has no near neighbors, hut in
distant part of the town are George William
Curtis and Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, the
author of the last life of Thomas Carlyle--two
congenial friends.
Count HENRI DE RUoLz, whose death has
been recorded, began life with an income of
SIC, 900 year; devoted himself first TO musical
composition, in which he achieved some success,
and afterward to scientific and mechanical ex-
periments, in which he invented the gavanic-
plating process, Anticipated Bessemer in steel
casting, and produced other novelties, and died
at the age of 50 with hardly q dollar in the
world.
CLAUS SPREcKELs is travelling about California
making converts to his theory that beet-sugar
can be made in that State to a sufficient amount
to supply the country. He has prepared a lee
ture ON beet-Sugar culture which he delivers free
of charge. The Sandwich Island newspapers
ridicule Spreckels' project, but his energy and
wealth are feared at Honolulu. The great
question in Kaakaua S kingdom is viii his beet
sugar beat Hawaii:
A CRANK called on Secretary Lamar last week
and demanded q million acres of land in the
West to establish a new Land of Canaan"
where the followers of the Unborn Lamb"
could worship in peace far from civilizations
vices. He said he was the high priest of the
new order. Mr.. Lamar informed him that the
unreliable Indian is still feature of the far
West, and that the vices of civilization are pre-
ferable to the cutting effects Of the tomahawk
and scalpng- knife.
THE first woman to attend the sessions of the
Interstate Commerce Commission was present
every day last week. She is the handsome and
brilliant daughter of George Rice, the Marietta
oil man who is making such strong fight
against the whole power of the Standard Oil
Company. Miss Rice knows as much about the
points at issue as her father. She takes charge
of part of the papers, watches the proceedings
closely, and now and then makes suggestions TO
her fathers counsel, John Randolph Tucker,
Judge Loomis and Mr., Foett.
Mrs PARAN STEVENS VERSION of the Mackay-
Potter-Stevens imbroglo is not quite like the
two that have already been published. Would
you like to know why we quarreled3" she asked
We'll, IL is this / begged ana implored Mrs
Potter not TO go on the stage, but she would.
My dear said, you are clever, you have great
ability; your talents, though, are for the draw
ing room, and there you will always shine.
Don't go on the stage 1t was no use. She was
bound &c go on and my continued intercession
made her angry. and that caused the quarrel